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About AstridL

AstridL writes erotic tales and lives in Vienna, the city of Josefine Mutzenbacher. AstridL has a blog at http://astridl.blogspot.com/. She does not tweet.

Sharon Ratheiser is an English artist living in Vienna. More of her work may be seen at http://pinterest.com/mblobs/sharon-ratheiser-s-artwork/. She does not tweet. She is rarely online; she has pictures to paint.

And here´s what a reader in France says in a 4-star review of Consuming the Muse: Two sides of the same coin?Consuming the Muse? First time readers of Erotica or not AstridL will have you laughing one minute, blushing or flushing the next and even squeeze a tear or two out of you now and then. My advice though is to couple this book with Sylvia Petter's Mercury Blobs. Why? Check out the review of Mercury Blobs, then take the plunge and buy both books.

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I am absolutely exhausted! But it´s that lovely satisfied exhaustion many of us know well.
My collection of erotic tales, Consuming the Muse, is now available in Kindle format. My wonderful publisher, Raging Aardvark, informs me that the paperback will be out in June. (If you don´t have a Kindle, there is a free download for Mac and PC.)
Consuming the Musecontains seventeen stories. Several have appeared in anthologies, in print and online journals, and as m

Ether Books is running an erotica contest and the prize is entry to Eroticon 2013 in London where you can learn to "write sex right" and lots of other things, as well, since "Eroticon is the UK's only conference for sex bloggers and erotica writers".

The contest theme is BRIEF ENCOUNTERS and the closing date is 22 November!

Happy to report that my story, “Dream Eros”, is now available as a mobile download from Ether Books.

“Dream Eros” was written during the 2006 Vienna Poetry Academy workshop contribution to the Wiener Festwochen, Orpheus in Eurydike, with teachers Augusta Laar and Ernst Molden. Proceeds from the workshop went to aid prostitutes wishing to quit the oldest profession.

"Vichyssoise" came over well at the Labfactory gig, Sex: Erotic Reading II on Friday night, as did the excerpts from the "Little Porn Glossary", a work in progress. It was the first time that one of my AstridL stories was read aloud, so it was a premiere of sorts. The experience augurs well for the WIP.

I'm pleased to announce that two of my stories, "The Wages of Bliss" and "Mushroom Strudel", are included in Seriously Sexy 1 which is edited by Miranda Forbes and has just been released by Xcite Books.

I've been busy in other parts of my life, but I wanted to come by and wish you all a delightful festive season and lots of good things in 2008.

Have a look at how sexy trees can be. Here are some pix of trees in Vienna commisioned by Baumchirurgie Saller. The ad company, Lowe, won awards for the posters in 2006 and 2007. Hope they're still up when I'm back in Vienna.

Above are some pix of Morton Bay Fig trees that I took just a few days ago in Sydney. Maybe they'll trig

I've had a few rejections lately, but just got the happy news that three more stories have been accepted by Xcite Books. "Vichyssoise" will appear in Ultimate Sins due out in November, and "Wages of Bliss" and "Mushroom Strudel" will appear in Seriously Sexy #1 due out early 2008.

Josefine Mutzenbacher was a Viennese prostitute who lived in the second half of the 19th Century. There's a translation of her autobiography here and here. The author of this erotic autobiography is given as anonymous, but today authorship is attributed to Felix Salten, author of Bambi. In Vienna there's a walking tour called Josefine Mutzenbacher - following the paths of lust in old Vienna. There's more on the tour over at Merc's World.

I've got some really great news to share on this Valentine's Day - so here goes:

My story, "Mangrove on Wenceles Square", will be appearing in an anthology edited by Simone Thorne in the Travelrotica series published by Alyson Books. The book is called Tales of Travelrotica for Lesbians Volume 2: Erotic Travel Adventures and will be available in August 2007.

Frédérique Monge is an artist in the South of France who does the most sensual portraits of flowers, fruits and vegetables. I visited her atelier years ago and she's still going strong in her own unique way. Still buzzing around in my head is the idea of doing an erotic cookbook laced with her portraits of fruits and vegetables. Any takers? Just let me know and I'll get the balls rolling.

I’ve had an idea for a story and don’t know how to go about it. First I had the characters, but they didn’t go anywhere. So much for characters first.

Then I went back and thought about what they were doing when they met. Observing. Well where? Location. What’s so special about the location? Found something. OK. How do they react to it and each other? I mean, that maybe where you are gives you a different spin on how you react at a given moment and towards a particular person, as op

I've got quite a few books written and edited by Mitzi Szereto - Erotic Fairy Tales, the three anthologies from her Erotic Travel Tales series and her latest anthology, Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers. Here's an interesting interview where Mitzi talks about her take on literary erotica, her books and her workshops.

Little Birds is a classic by Anais Nin and here's a link from Wikipedia to the preface of that book of erotic stories (just follow the links for some of the stories). This lady has a very interesting bio that goes to show that erotica is just one of the many facets of woman. Also check out Thinking of Anais Nin for a slightly different angle again - and so it goes round ...

Here and there I'd like to share with you some of the books in my library. J.H. Blair has compiled a collection of The Good Parts: the best erotic writing in modern fiction. Contributers include Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, William Styron, Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Frederick Busch, Jane Smiley, Robert Olen Butler, Siri Hustvedt, Susan Sontag, Amy Bloom, Rick Moody, Mary Gaitskill, ...